Pratt v. Castle

Plaintiff is the son-in-law of the defendant. In 1878 they made a verbal agreement, by which plaintiff agreed to work defendant’s farm on shares, rendering to him one-half of the avails thereof. This farm was known as the “Argentine Earm.” Plaintiff kept no-account of what he raised, or of what he delivered to defendant. Defendant testified that he did not receive much from the farm, and he also kept no account. Affairs went on in this loose way until the year 1887, when plaintiff persuaded defendant to exchange his farm for another, known as the “Galloway Farm.” In effecting this exchange…